ACRUMEN: The Six Key Aspects of Software Quality

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Presents ACRUMEN as six prioritized qualities: Appropriate Correct Robust Usable Maintainable Efficient, claiming appropriateness outweighs all others combined and the N is filler. Recommends concrete practices: use Given–When–Then acceptance tests, automated unit/integration/end-to-end suites, and advanced tooling like property-based and mutation testing, static analyzers and fuzzers, plus pen-test mindset. Diagnoses performance with profilers and network captures, fixes hotspots, wraps fixes with performance tests, and offloads long tasks to queued workers for responsiveness.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 2:26Defining software quality
3. 6:47Introducing ACRUMEN framework
4. 7:07First aspect: Appropriateness
5. 10:20Second aspect: Correctness
6. 13:39Third aspect: Robustness
7. 18:19Fourth aspect: Usability
8. 25:16Fifth aspect: Maintainability
9. 29:16Sixth aspect: Efficiency
10. 34:04Inspiration behind ACRUMEN
11. 36:28Q&A and closing

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